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Crosslingual Generalization through Multitask Finetuning

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Muennighoff, Niklas, Wang, Thomas, Sutawika, Lintang, Roberts, Adam, Biderman, Stella, Le Scao, Teven, Bari, M Saiful, Shen, Sheng +11 more·2023·Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

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Niklas Muennighoff, Thomas Wang, Lintang Sutawika, Adam Roberts, Stella Biderman, Teven Le Scao, M Saiful Bari, Sheng Shen, Zheng Xin Yong, Hailey Schoelkopf, Xiangru Tang, Dragomir Radev, Alham Fikri Aji, Khalid Almubarak, Samuel Albanie, Zaid Alyafeai, Albert Webson, Edward Raff, Colin Raffel. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2023.

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  • The scientific documentation of BloomZ includes multiple peer-reviewed papers, while no peer-reviewed papers providing scientific documentation or evaluation of Llama are known currently.

    “The scientific documentation of BloomZ also includes multiple peer-reviewed papers , from a scientific description of the multitask fine-tuning procedures [41] to an estimation of the carbon footprint [36] currently one of the very few scientifically vetted sources of data on the energy footprint of training large language models. No peerreviewed papers providing scientific documentation or eval”
  • Machine-translated data can cause translationese or possible name bias, gender bias, or cultural bias.

    “We try to avoid using machine-translated data to finetune the model in order to prevent translationese (Bizzoni et al., 2020; Muennighoff et al., 2023) or possible name bias (Wang et al., 2022a), gender bias (Savoldi et al., 2021), or cultural bias (Ji et al., 2023).”

    From The Llama 3 Herd of Models (2024) · cites this paper as Muennighoff et al., 2023

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Muennighoff, N., Wang, T., Sutawika, L., Roberts, A., Biderman, S., Le Scao, T., Bari, M. S., Shen, S., Yong, Z. X., Schoelkopf, H., Tang, X., Radev, D., Aji, A. F., Almubarak, K., Albanie, S., Alyafeai, Z., Webson, A., Raff, E., & Raffel, C.
Affiliations
  • University of Cambridge (GB)
  • Google (United States) (US)
  • Booz Allen Hamilton (United States) (US)
  • University of California, Berkeley (US)
  • Brown University (US)
  • King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (SA)
Corresponding author
Muennighoff, Niklas
Venue
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Published
2023
Pages
15991-16111
ISSN
0736-587X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4385571124
Cited by
361
References
33
Citations by year
2026: 57 · 2025: 76 · 2024: 112 · 2023: 116
FWCI
63.96
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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cc-by
Locations
Proceedings of the conference - Association for Computational Linguistics. Meeting (publishedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
  • Grand Équipement National De Calcul Intensif
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
Keywords
cross-lingual generalization, multilingual language models, transfer learning, low-resource languages

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